Most commonly asked questions
1. What is ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day?
2. Can I Hold a Fundraising Event for ICEE Any Day of the Year?
3. How Can Our School / Early Learning Centre get Further Involved?
4. Do I Have to Raise Funds to be Involved in ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day?
5. How Do I Submit Funds Raised from Sunnies for Sight Day?
9. How Will Our Donation Help?
10. Are Donations to ICEE Tax Deductible?
12. How Do I Learn More About ICEE?
1. What is ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day?
ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day is an annual fundraising event held on the last Friday in February. It is a FUN, educational day - children learn and get involved in helping others see.
ICEE invites early learning centres, primary schools and secondary schools across Australia to participate in this educational fundraising event.
The next Sunnies for Sight Day is Friday, 27 February, 2009.
2. Can I Hold a Fundraising Event for ICEE Any Day of the Year?
Yes, ICEE would appreciate your support at any time of the year. The website is accessible all year round for you to use the educational materials and send in
any funds raised.
3. How Can Our School / Early Learning Centre get Further Involved?
• Download our education packages and teach children about vision and why sight is important.
• Promote your Sunnies for Sight Day activities by using the school press release template.
• Review the A to Z fundraising ideas and choose the one that best suits your school.
• Use the promotional tools supplied to promote your event
– poster, invitation / donation slip.
• Request an ICEE speaker to come to your school
(Please note we are currently limited to Sydney schools and availability is limited).
4. Do I Have to Raise Funds to be Involved in ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day?
No, you are welcome to use the materials provided by ICEE as an educational tool for your school or child care centre.
5. How Do I Submit Funds Raised from Sunnies for Sight Day?
There are two ways in which to remit the funds:
• Add up funds and organise a cheque or money order payable to:
International Centre for Eyecare Education
PO Box 6396
UNSW Sydney NSW 1466• Credit card payment via our secure online webpage
Please send funds within 2 weeks of your fundraising event.
One receipt per school will be issued. Please ensure you include your school’s name, coordinator’s name and full address with your donation. A Payment slip is available for you to download and print.
ICEE (the International Centre for Eyecare Education - pronounced “I See”) is an Australian based not for profit, non government organisation that is helping to bring much needed eye care within reach of people around the world.
For 10 years ICEE has worked to provide underserved communities, in Australia and 40 other countries, with access to vision care to help reduce poverty.
ICEE provides effective, affordable and sustainable eye care programmes by investing in local people, eye health education and the future of eye care access.
The programmes’ ICEE initiates are aimed at building skills and knowledge, creating employment opportunities, enlisting governments and communities to support eye care systems and enhancing community and individual confidence.
Our programmes are designed to empower local people and communities to create solutions for eye care needs.
Training local practitioners to perform eye care services builds a self-sustaining system and gives local people ownership of the whole process.
At ICEE we know that a pair of glasses and access to eye care means improved performance at school, increased employment opportunities and, ultimately, a higher quality of life.
The ICEE mission is to help eliminate avoidable blindness and impaired vision, particularly due to “uncorrected refractive error” (needing glasses to see). We work in collaboration with the community and with other organisations to target local needs, including:
Immediate care
- Eyecare services: We provide eye examinations, glasses and referrals to answer the immediate needs of disadvantaged communities.Sustainable services
- Education: We increase the number of eye care practitioners available for communities in need by training and equipping practitioners and educators. We also aim to improve the knowledge and skills of existing practitioners and educators with professional education, and to raise eye health awareness within local communities.- Infrastructure: We are developing systems to distribute affordable spectacles in developing countries. We help to establish eye clinics and training facilities to foster ongoing eye care services.
Through strong partnerships with Aboriginal Medical Services, ICEE works in 89 communities in New South Wales and regularly visits 23 locations in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Asia-Pacific:
• Australia
• Cambodia
• China
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Vietnam
• Western Pacific
Africa:
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• South Africa
• Uganda
Latin America:
• Guyana
9. How Will Our Donation Help?
Funds raised from ICEE Sunnies for Sight Day will help:
• provide eye examinations and glasses to people in need;
• train and equip nurses and eye care workers;
• develop eye care clinics and training facilities.
10. Are Donations to ICEE Tax Deductible?
Donations over $2.00 to ICEE are tax deductible in Australia.
Donations to ICEE and money raised through fundraising events go to support ICEE programmes throughout the world, including eye care delivery, education and the development of eye care infrastructure.
12. How Do I Learn More About ICEE?
Visit ICEE at www.icee.org
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